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Novelist Stone's merry misery is touching and frequently funny, but it is also disquieting in a way that the author cannot have intended. The trouble is that, wrongly or not, today's readers are not schooled to accept the gift of charm graciously. Charm seems false, because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eagle & X-er | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

» The Space Needle, topped by an observation platform and a revolving restaurant, is bound to be the fair's most popular feature. Three elevator capsules with clear plastic fronts rocket visitors to the top so fast and so openly that fair officials joke about erecting a saloon at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Shortly after the Duke of Windsor, 67, threatened to sue on charges of invasion of privacy, WNBC-TV's scheduled 30-minute Biography of the Duke and his merry wife was scrubbed by the sponsor. Likely reason for the Duke's move: fear that the show might take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 30, 1962 | 3/30/1962 | See Source »

Some real names are out of character. Roy Rogers was Leonard Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egos: Melting the Pot | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

Dismayed by the lack of seriousness among Harvard students, Ch'ang notes that "many children of the rich families play truant...spend their time in clubs, drinking, merry-making and indulging in orgies of debauchery."

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Harvard Students 'Decadent'---Ch'ang | 3/13/1962 | See Source »

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